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Re: Bicycle Coffee Systems

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From: Lynn McDougal
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 00:00
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On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Luis Bernhardt wrote:

> What's this? Europeans were drinking real coffee in Viennese
> coffeehouses back when people in Seattle were cooking Maxwell House in
> electric percolators.
> 

I stand happily corrected!  You are, of course, most correct.  And thanks 
for helping me to remember a fond chilhood memory...the smell of real 
coffee coming out of one of those huge machines.  My father is Italian.  
I knew cappucinos and real pasta my whole life...I guess I just now 
realized what a treat that truly was vs something that my 'weird father' did.

Lynn
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From: Lynn McDougal <sneezy@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Subject: Re: Bicycle Coffee Systems
Date: 1996/10/12
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